John Wayne Casserole


Ingredients:

8 ouncse canned, diced green chiles
1 pound Monterey jack cheese, coarsely grated
1 pound Cheddar cheese, coarsely grated
3/4 cup evaporated milk
4 eggs, separated
1 tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 tomatoes, thinly sliced
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

Mix chiles and cheeses and put into a buttered shallow casserole.

In a small bowl combine milk, egg yolks, flour, salt and pepper.

In a large bowl beat egg whites to stiff peaks. Gently fold whites into the yolk mixture. Then pour the mixture over the cheese and chile mixture and carefully blend. Bake for 30 minutes.

Remove from oven and lay tomato slices over the entire top. Return to oven and bake 30 minutes longer, or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Garnish with a sprinkling of green chiles.

Serves 6 to 8.

How in the world did it get that name?

I have no idea - either he ate it or he invented it or someone was a JW fan!

Any one will work. And what are you doing up so early Mama?

Oops. I forget we're in different times zones. You dun laid up in da bed till daylight thirty!

LOL - I am not a sleeper - I am up all night long - and out of bed by 3:30 am - I take after my mom and my gram - I'm up before the birds and the worms! Heck - someone has to wake the little suckers up!
Sad part - mom was the same way - we'd have tea, clean and bake together while everyone was sleeping. Now it's just me - and I just wander through the house at times now - it's so different. I don't like it.
Plus - on school days I am out the door by 5:00Am to watch the babies sleep, then wake them, check the homework and take them to school so their mom can go to work. And then I wait all day for the phone to ring in case one of them gets sick in school so I can pick them up from school and take them home and take care of them.

Just a daily drive to the city and back again - once home - well let's just say - it's so different. And these are the first holidays without mom - the memories.